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V. A^'Xfi'?^'^ 



AMERICA'S 

Black and White 

BOOK 



One Hundred Pictured Reasons 

WHY WE ARE A T WAR 
' By 

W. A. ROGERS 



CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY 

NEW YORK 






Copyright, i<)i7, by 

Thf New York Hekald Company 

All Rights Reserved 



FEB 14 1918 



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LIST OF CARTOONS 

NUMBER 

1. Verdict — "Carelessness on the part of the deceased.' 

2. The first great German "U" Boat Victory. 

3. Modern German Gothic Art. 

4. The Announcement. 

5. A SILENT COMPANY — Yet its voice is heard above the roar of 

Cannon. 

6. Those "cannon on the forward deck." 

7. Here are "the facts." 

8. He had expected to find the President alone. 

9. "We Germans love the Belgians, who were forced into the war." 

— Dr. Demberg. 

1 0. The Crushing of Belgium. 

1 1 . Invasion of Belgium by the "Uncultured." 

12. GERMAN RELIGIOUS ART — Intended for a Cathedral window. 

1 3. Christmas Night. 

I 4. A. moving picture. 

I 5. There is no American blood on John Bull's hands. 

16. Going to "throw a scare" into Uncle Sam. 

I 7. "THOSE FLIPPANT AMERICANS, who were drowned on the Lusi- 
tania." — Cologne Gazette. 

18. "Gott Mit Uns" — and Allah too! 

1 9. Swarming. 

20. "Here's a present from the Kaiser, my pretty maid." 

21. "Seized for Military purposes." 

22. Those w^ho are decorated. 

23. It w^as a glorious Victory. 

24. One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little 

Belgium. 

25. "Don't you see the war is nearly over? — Forget the Lusitanial" 

26. Activities of a German diplomatist in America. 

27. Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe. 

28. A good deal like the "Goose-Step." 

29. The sad case of Mr. Dumba. 

30. Just whose pet snake is this? 

31. Is God still with us? 

32. Once more the Olive Branch. 

33. Assurances by the waste-basket full. 

34. "Yes, father, I remember you said the war would end in October." 

35. Spraddled. 

36. The Austrians did it. 

37. Recently on exhibition at Cooper Union. 

38. The New Intensive Kultur. 

39. "Watch your step!" 

40. Whether to get angry or to laugh! 

41. A message on preparedness — at the psychological moment. 

42. A little May party interferes with the Christmas spirit. 

43. The Ambulance Driver. 

44. "For ways that are dark." 

45. "It's got to be uprooted." 

46. The Persia Torpedoed. 

47. The Barbary Pirates: 

We cleaned them out 1 1 years ago, and we may have to do 
it again. 

48. Yes, of course, "Turkey did it." 

49. Washington's most industrious special correspondent. 

50. A Silent Protest. 



LIST OF CARTOONS 



NUMBER 

5 1 . His Private graveyard. 

52. Safety first. 

53. Let the decoration fit the crime. 

54. Like sheep to the slaughter. 

55. Von Tirpitz. 

56. On the sinking of a hospital ship. 

57. "Pirates and Privateers no longer exist." — Von Jagow. 

58. "Well, Count, do you claim it?" 

59. The Kaiser's Colonial Secretary for North America. 

60. "Please observe, Mr. Ambassador, that you are pretty close to the edge 

yourself." 

61. "From now on we w^ill make no forward movement." 

62. "Admiral of the Atlantic." 

63. Assorted cargo for the return trip of the Deutschland. 

64. Triumph of the Hohenzollerns at Verdun. 

65. Those disappointing German-Americans. 

66. Preparing a few^ more answers to our protests. 

67. Is anybody being fooled by this? 

68. A Prussian offer of Peace. 

69. No, this is not Eliza crossing on the ice! 

70. Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, eh? 

71. Bringing the flag up to date! 

72. A survival of the dark ages. 

73. Germany. 

74. Under their true flag. 

75. Wrathful waiting. 

76. THE ONLY ANSWER: 

Kaiser: "One day in the week you may go to Falmouth." 
Uncle Sam: "Seven days in the w^eek you may go to !" 

77. I'm here, Mr. President, close behind you. 

78. Another case of wiping hands on the American flag. 

79. For homeless Belgium. 

80. "Shame — only American sailors! Not a woman or child in the lot." 

8 1 . Something to remember after the War. 

82. The new recruit. 

83. It is to laugh. 

84. Not all is dark. 

85. "We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches." — German report. 

86. "Papa, here comes the light that killed Uncle Nick." 

87. The Junker must go. 

88. "Come avay; our music iss not for Barbarians." 

89. The Piffle steams under orders from Wilhelmstrasse. 

90. THE HONEYMOON IS OVER. 

'He gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall." 

91. A good recruiting sergeant for Uncle Sam. 

92. Will it succeed? 

93. "Your mother, your wife, your child may be nextl" 

94. Still "luring tSem on." 

95. Mobilized. 

96. The way to do it. 

97. Rehearsing their swan song. 

98. Hold Fast, Everybody! 

99. This is their emblem. 
100. To France! 




INTRODUCTION 

EACH government engaged in the European War has issued a White, Green, Blue or 
Yellow Book, explaining the causes which led to its entry into the great conflict. 
These books are all interesting, and are full of valuable documentary information; 
but, if the busy people of America are to understand the reasons for their ow^n partici- 
pation in the war, some shorter cut to the desired end must be devised. 

We, therefore, offer a BLACK AND WHITE BOOK, in which our nation's reasons for 
going to war are set forth in pictures, a universal language which can be read at a glance by 
any one who has eyes to see. 

On August I st, 1914, we were at peace with all the world. We were bound by ties of 
blood to every race on earth. 

Particularly close and intimate v\:ere our relations v^ith the German people, whom we 
welcomed to our shores as among our most desirable citizens. 

Then, far aw^ay from us, apart from our interests or concerns — like a tragedy being, 
played on the other side of the footlights — broke the frightful war of 1914. We looked on 
fascinated, but not convinced of the reality of its cruelty. 

For a little over eight months we watched it, when, on April 22nd, 1915, there appeared 
in the New York papers an advertisement stating that the great passenger ship "LUSITANIA" 
would sail on the 7th of May for Liverpool. 

In the next column, in equally conspicuous type, appeared a sinister warning to Ameri- 
cans, telling them to keep off the seas at peril of their lives. This was signed, "IMPERIAL 
GERMAN EMBASSY, Washington, D. C." 

On May 7th came the fulfilment of the threat, and we awoke to the fact that we were 
not an audience looking at a tragedy, but the victims of the tragedy itself. 

Not until then was it brought home to cg that our good German friends, whom we 
thought we knew so well, had been inoculated with the virus of a Junker madneas, and that 
we were dealing with a people who had cast from them every restraint of fair fighting and 
had become the outlaw nation of the world. 

In the following pictures the Artist has attempted to show "Why we are at war." 



-W. A. ROGERS. 



WITH Junker thoroughness, Dr. Bernhard 
Dernberg had been sent here to suggest ex- 
cuses for the brutal assassination of Belgium. 




Verdict — "Carelessness on the part of the deceased. " 



THE first woman to fall a victim to the "U' 
boat piracy was a stew^ardess on an English 
merchant ship sunk without warning in 1914. 




The first great German "U" boat Victory. 

[2] 



THE Rheims Cathedral belonged to the v/orld. 
The product of hundreds of years of conse- 
crated labor, its destruction by a nation devoted to 
"Kultur" is one of the primary reasons why we are 
at war. 



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Modern German Gothic Art. 

[3] 



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THE blackest count in the indictment against 
Germany is foreshadowed in the warning by 
the Imperial German Embassy at Washington to 
all Americans, of the crime w^hich w^as to follo\y 
on May 7th, 1915. 




The Announcement. 

[4] 



ON May 7th, 1915, by order of the Imperial 
German Government, a "U" boat torpedoed 
the great ship Lusitania without -warning, drown- 
ing over 1 ,200 passengers. A sea crime unequaled 
by any pirate know^n to history. 




A SILENT COMPANY— Yet its voice is heard above the roar of 
Cannon. 



[5J 



IMMEDIATELY after the sinking of the Lusi- 
tania, hired perjurers swore that the ship carried 
guns on her for^vard deck when she sailed from the 
port of New York. 




Those "cannon on the forward deck." 

[6] 



GERMANY with brazen stupidity insisted on 
being told the facts — facts which she knew 
in far greater detail than did the Government of 
the United States. 







Here are "the facts." 

[7] 



A FEW days after the crime of May 7th, the 
Count Von Bernstorff requested an audience 
■with the President. 

He understood he was to see the President alone. 




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He had expected to find the President alone. 



R. BERNHARD DERNBERG became ex- 
ceedingly tiresome with his hypocritical 
professions of affection for the Belgians. His pro- 
paganda was effective but not in the way he in- 
tended. 




'We Germans love the Belgians, who were forced into the war." 

— Dr. Dernberg. 



IF the Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm really 
said what he is credited with: "This is the 
most stupid, senseless and unnecessary war of 
modern times," he accurately described his father's 
masterpiece. 




The Crushing of Belgium. 

[10] 



IN the early months of the war the plain people 
of the United States invaded Belgium. This 
lack of "Kultur" was not criticised by the Belgians. 




Invasion of Belgixim by the "Uncultured. 



IN the autumn of 1914 the German Government 
issued a poster representing a 42 c. m. shell on 
w^hich was piously inscribed, "Mit Gott fur Konig 
und Vaterland." 




GERMAN RELIGIOUS ART— Intended for a Cathedral window. 

[12] 



IT is a singular fact, attested by many photo- 
graphs, that in the battered interiors of a num- 
ber of Cathedrals within the war zone, figures of 
Christ, unharmed, still hold their places. 







Christmas Night. 

[13] 



OFFICIAL Germany has reported that the 
busy "U" boat Commander sometimes de- 
sists from firing on life boats long enough to reel 
off a moving picture of his drowning victims. 




A moving picture. 

[14] 



A STRONG effort was being made in May, 
1915, to persuade the United States Govern- 
ment that England was equally guilty w^ith Ger- 
many in ignoring our rights at sea. 




There is no American blood on John Bull's hands. 

[15] 



THE German dearly loves a masquerade. Mr. 
Bartholdt was parading the "German Vote" 
in Congress in January, 1915, -with the idea of 
"Throwing a scare into Uncle Sam." 




Going to "throw a scare" into Uncle Sam. 

[16] 



THE. semi-official Cologne Gazette added insult 
to injury when it characterized the one hun- 
dred and twenty-five American men, w^omen and 
children lost on the "Lusitania, " as "Those Flippant 
Americans. " 




'lI^SI-^ZZJg^^^'''^'"' -'" — ^-'^ "" ">» 



[17] 



THE Kaiser invited the "unspeakable Turk" 
to help subjugate the barbarians of England, 
France and Italy, 




'Gott Mit Uns" — and Allah too! 

ri8] 



THE United States was swarming with Ger- 
man spies and assassins whose activities 
seemed to have a center in the German Embassy 
at Washington. 







Swarming. 

[19] 



LITTLE children playing on the quiet greens of 
peaceful English villages seemed to be the 
favorite targets of the Zeppelin fleet. 




Heres a present from the Kaiser, my pretty little maid. 



THE hosts of "Kultur" seemed to take particu- 
lar delight in the destruction of the monu- 
ments of Gothic grandeur in Belgium and France. 




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'Seized for Military purposes. 

[21] 



As the "war went on, the heroism and devotion 
of the Red Cross nurse seemed to shine out 
with a lustre which quite eclipsed the glitter of 
military decorations. 




Those who are decorated. 

[22] 



HEROIC Belgium, crushed beneath the gross 
bulk of bloated Junkerdom, still held his 
sword in hand, ready to strike again for freedom. 




It was a glorious Victory. 



GERMAN soldiers "whose hands were red with 
the blood of Belgian mothers, posed for 
official photographs to be used for American propa- 
ganda, show^ing them feeding little Belgian children. 




One of those touching pictures of a German soldier feeding little 
Belgium. 



C24] 



AFTER the campaigns of Lemberg and 
Przemysl, the Kaiser intimated to Washington 
that the War was about over; and it would be well, 
in the interests of peace, to FORGET THE 
"LUSITANIA." 




Don't you see the war is nearly over? — Forget the Lusitania!' 



COUNT Von Bernstorff continued to "pl^Y 
horse" with Uncle Sam, while Dumba, Von 
Papen and Boy-Ed looked on w^ith ill-concealed 
contempt at "the idiotic Yankees." 




Activities of a German diplomatist in America. 

[26] 



IN contrast to the violation of our hospitality by 
Counts Von Bernstorff and Dumba in America, 
Brand Whitlock, our ambassador in Belgium, spent 
his time in relieving the distress in that distracted 
country. 




Activities of an American diplomatist in Europe. 



MR. BRYAN, in the disguise of a pacifist, was 
consciously or unconsciously playing the 
role assigned him by the Imperial German Em- 
bassy at Washington. 







A good deal like the "Goose-Step. 

E28J 



AMBASSADOR DUMBA, having accumulated 
sufficient rope, hanged himself at last. His 
hat as well as his passports were handed him by 
the President. 




The sad case of Mr. Dumba. 

[29] 



ONE bomb plot succeeded another; leaving a 
slimy trail that aWays led back to the Ger- 
man Embassy at Washington. 




lH^i^Ki 






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Just whose pet snake is this? 

[30] 



BEFORE a -wrecked Cathedral -window in 
France, from which the Mother and Child still 
looked down in silent protest, a young German re- 
cruit might -well ask, "Is God still -with us?" 




Is God still with us? 

[31] 



IN September, 1915, the Count Von Bernstorff 
extended the olive branch to the Government 
of the United States, while Von Tirpitz backed 
him up with a gun. 




Once more the Olive Branch. 

[32] 



VON BETHMANN-HOLLWEG was urged by 
the German Embassy in Washington to patch 
up any old assurances and send them over as Uncle 
Sam was becoming extremely restless. 




Assurances by the waste-basket full. 

[33] 



CERTAIN that Verdun would fall, the Kaiser 
had predicted that the war would end in 
October, 1915. As September closed, the Crown 
Prince's army w^as being shot to pieces. 




'Yes, father, I remember you said the ^A^ar would end in October." 

[34] 



IT looked as though the German Army -was 
spread over too much territory — faced too 
many fronts to be effective! 




Spraddled. 



THE "Ancona" -was sunk with great loss of life, 
and the German Government immediately 
claimed that an Austrian "U" boat was respon- 
sible, their attitude being that any story was good 
enough for "those idiotic Yankees." 




The Austrians did it. 

[36] 



IN the autumn of 1915, "The Friends of Peace" 
hung their white robes over plots of assassi- 
nation, arson, piracy and the destruction of ships 
and munition plants. 




Recently on exhibition at Cooper Union. 

[37] 



UNDER OUR FEET the Prussian spy system 
was working day and night. It was hard to 
take a step in Washington without sticking your 
foot on a spiked helmet. 




The New Intensive Kultur. 

[38] 



THE people of the United States were beginning 
to think we had had enough of German ag- 
gression, and it w^as felt that a strong stand must 
be made for the national dignity and honor. 




'Watch your step!" 

139] 



IN November, 1915, Mr. Henry Ford had an idea 
"wished on him" by an Austrian lady who w^as 
lecturing in this country. She succeeded in making 
a spectacle of him, at which Uncle Sam was uncer- 
tain whether to laugh or weep. 




Whether to get angry or to laugh! 

[40] 



WHEN the country, in December, 1915, "was 
at the height of distraction, with plots 
against its peace and security being carried out in 
every direction, President Wilson came out Avith 
a message on Preparedness for War. 




A message on preparedness — at the psychological moment. 

[41] 



IMMEDIATELY before Christmas the German 
Government once more sent us assurances of 
her high regard and friendship, meanwhile blowing 
up a few^ ships at sea and munition plants on land. 




A little May party interferes with the Christmas spirit. 

[42] 



MANY young Americans were at the front, 
driving their ambulances into the Hne of 
fire. Even Christmas night found therrr abroad on 
their errands of mercy. 




The Ambulance Driver. 

[43] 



WITH one hand passing out checks to Von 
Papen to pay for dynamite, and the other 
carrying assurances to the White House of Ger- 
many's good faith and friendship, Gount Von 
Bernstorff w^as fairly busy. 




'For ways that are dark. 



TREASONABLE plots v^ere becoming more 
and more unbearable. It "was thought that 
the breaking point vv^as very near. 










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"It's got to be uprooted." 

[45] 



THE U. S. Consul to Aden, travelling on the 
business of his government, vvras the victim of 
a "U" boat attack in the Mediterranean. This oc- 
curred very near the spot v\rhere we drove the Bar- 
bary pirates from the seas a hundred and ten years 
ago. 



TttE CONSUL'S STORY 

AS TOLD TO THE JLITTLt LVSHANIfii CHILDREN. 




S^J. 



The Persia Torpedoed. 

[46] 



THE expedition in wrhich the U, S. Marines dis- 
tinguished themselves one hundred and ten 
years ago vv^as brought to mind by the piracy of 
1916. 




I'; l:^z a:T^^' ''""-' *^'" •-" "« ^-^ ^^° -^ we 



WITH characteristic effrontery Germany and 
Austria disclaimed responsibility for the 
death of our consul to Aden, blaming it on the 
Turks. 




^vj^ T^rr^o^'-''' 



Yes, of course, "Turkey did it." 

[48] 



IN Feburary, 1916, the newspaper offices were 
being bombarded w^ith stories from "a source 
near the German Embassy." — "What Mr, Lansing 
thinks," "Washington agrees w^ith BerHn," "What 
the President beheves," etc., etc. 







Washington's most industrious special correspondent. 

[49] 



IN the Place d'lena in Paris stands a statue of 
Washington. Within sight of this monument 
an old man and a little child were killed, the only 
victims of an air raid by German "Taubes. " 




A Silent Protest. 

[50] 



\7^0N BERNSTORFF, hoping that the "Lusi- 
tania" was buried forever, was busy with as- 
surances of regret. His principal hope being that 
she might "Rest in Peace." 




His Private graveyard. 

[51] 



MR. BRYAN, to the disgust of all decent 
Americans, made a plea to his countrymen 
to bow to the Avill of Germany and keep off the 
seas entirely. 




Safety first. 

[52] 



IT was asserted and has never been denied, by 
the German Government, that the Kaiser deco- 
rated the commander of the "U" boat which sank 
the Lusitania. 




■^S- ""^K 



Let the decoration fit the crime. 

[53] 



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TERDUN had become a slaughter house. To 
save the tottering prestige of the Crown 
Prince Frederick Wilhelm, whole German bat- 
talions w^ere sacrificed in vain efforts to break 
down the French defense. 




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Like sheep to the slaughter. 

[54] 



VON TIRPITZ was said to have expressed deep 
sorrow for the women and children he had 
been compelled to kill. (As w^ell, perhaps, as for 
those w^hom he w^as to kill on the morrow^.) 



OK, ujot IS 7VU. , ih.t'Tirote^ cnect^ 
TUy oLotL ' 5 -^e^v fu.ll sore, 

j'^TvcL Son-<3uj, LLIct' Q, risiaa "ticLtj 
Droiuas alt "tlvt/ \oyS oy^jQ^e^," 

Tfvts clroiwnliid ch-Udrux Iry iiit, scort- 
T-towE/i/e-r cLrolL ffit, sport maii seeia, 
Jtatts to iE- <x (lorricL Crort,'. 



So Lei: -m-t, sitr a.n.cL o/te-p ixxw filL^ 
Soft- otx-flvt^ cLcsm-cuL /ranks of \<.it.L- 
We.£.p -fx>r-th.L b-a.(rts tu/vo L<> 50 <:+; I > 

Tfien. prtyikeTPirall- , so oicL aad. gra^, 

j^s lxtsh.a.rp£as K'ts kaife aadihtteoi'sfall^ost, 

^t- uJoaUL actwour cLe<xi--iK.Mai7iaoLSortof aumu 




Von Tirpitz. 

[55] 



THE Junker Pirates, having filled the sea with 
little lost children, torpedoed a hospital ship 
and sent down into the deep a score of Red Cross 
nurses to keep them company. 




On the sinking of a hospital ship. 

[56] 



IN the face of a sea campaign of "Frightful- 
ness, " Von Jagow came out w^ith a statement 
that "Piracy no longer exists. " But something 
just as good was "made in Germany. " 




"Pirates and Privateers no longer exist." — Von Jagow. 

[57] 



IN a safe of one Von Igel were found documents 
of the most incriminating nature. Count Von 
Bernstorff was given opportunity to claim them as 
official papers if he so desired. 




'Well. Count, do you claim it?" 

[58] 



JUNKER impudence in the German Embassy at 
Washington had reached its highest point. 
Even Count Von Bernstorff reahzed that he had 
gone the very Hmit -with our State Department. 




The Kaiser's Colonial Secretary for North AmericEu 

[59] 



WHEN the German Ambassador protested 
against the deportation of his chief Heuten- 
ants for their activities in plots against our peace 
and safety, he was \varned that his own position 
was none too secure. 




"Please observe, Mr. Ambassador, that you are pretty close to the 
edge yourself." 

[60] 



MAKING a virtue, perhaps, of necessity, the 
German Government announced, in Feb- 
ruary, 1916, that "from now on it w^ould make no 
forw^ard movement. " Events since have proved 
how w^ell it reahzed its true condition. 




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'From now on we will make no forward movement." 

[61] 



IN June, I 91 6, Wilhelm II, peering out from be- 
hind Heligoland, where his ships had rusted for 
two years, declared himself "Admiral of the At- 
lantic." 




"Admiral of the Atlantic." 

[62] 



THE "Deutschland," a cargo submersible craft, 
sent over for reasons best known to the Ger- 
man Admiralty, was extremely mysterious as to 
her cargo for the return trip. 




Assorted cargo for the return trip of the Deutschland. 

[63] 



IT was stated in a cable from Amsterdam, that, 
by the Kaiser's direct personal order, issued 
about three weeks after the first attack on Verdun, 
to the Court painter, a great historical painting 
w^as to be made, called "The Triumph of the 
Hohenzollerns. " Accordingly the painter, with 
costumes, horses, models, and a corps of photog- 
raphers and assistants, mobilized his forces on an 
eminence overlooking Verdun. 




Jriumph of the Hohenzollerns at Verdun. 

[64] 



JUNKERDOM could never understand why all 
German-bom American citizens, or American 
citizens of German blood did not immediately rally 
to the flag of Germany against the forces fighting 
for the liberty of the world. 




Those disappointing German-Americans. 



[66] 



GERMANY was ready to talk about restricting 
"U" boat activity as long as -we would listen 
to her; but the sound of riveting machines in her 
shipyards w^as her real answ^er. 




Preparing a few more answers to our protests. 

[66] 



WHILE Von Bethmann-Hollweg was talking 
of Germany's desire for peace and a cessa- 
tion of slaughter, Germany was making every 
preparation for a renew^al, more ruthless than ever, 
of undersea w^arfare. 




Is anybody being fooled by this? 

[67] 



WHILE her soldiers were driving Belgian civil- 
ians into slavery in Germany, Von Beth- 
mann-HolWeg was issuing such beautiful senti- 
ments as the follow^ing: "Conscious of their 
responsibility before God, before their own nations 
and before Humanity. ' 




A Prussian oflFer of Peace. 

[68] 



AN American-German (not a German- Ameri- 
can) said in an interview in December, 1916, 
that Germany's Peace Proposals had broken the 
ice. 




No, this is not Eliza crossing on the ice! 

[69] 



EVERYBODY in the world had heard of the 
German Peace Proposals, supposed to have 
been sent out by the Kaiser, but nobody had been 
allo^ved to see them. 




Maybe somebody wants to buy a little suckling pig, eh? 



THE Kaiser and Von Tirpitz were much happier 
in announcing a new campaign of Intensive 
Frightfulness than w^hen endorsing the hypocritical 
peace proposals of Von Bethmann HolWeg. 




Bringing the flag up to date! 

[71] 



THE retreat of the German Army in north- 
eastern France "will be remembered as one of 
the blackest pages in Junker history. 

It stirred the indignation of the "whole vv^orld. 




A survival of the dark 

[72] 



ages. 



BLINDED by the glitter of fifty years of mili- 
tarism, the German peasant now^ finds himself 
the bearer of a crushing burden. 

His case is not helped by the diplomacy w^hich 
guides him. 




Germany. 

[73] 



ON February 1st the German Admiralty with 
the utmost deliberation raised the black flag 
of piracy against the entire -world, declaring that all 
vessels of whatever description w^ould be sunk on 
sight if they approached European w^aters. 




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Under their true flag. 



BY the end of February, 1917, the President and 
the people of the United States were in a state 
of indignatiorj that could not much longer be con- 
trolled. 

They had exchanged "watchful" for "wrathful" 
* w^aiting. 




Wrathful waiting. 

[75] 



JUNKER impudence finally overreached itself. 
When the United States was informed that it 
could send one ship striped like a zebra to Fal- 
mouth each \veek, American patience suddenly 
came to an end. 




THE ONLY ANSWER: 

Kaiser: "One day in the week you may go to Falmouth." 
Uncle Sam: "Seven days in the week you may go to !" 



THE President addressed a request to Congress 
for power to arm merchant vessels for protec- 
tion against German piracy. 




I'm here, Mr. President, close behind you. 

[77] 



Two little children, born almost under the 
shadow of the Hall of Independence in Phila- 
delphia, were murdered at sea in the new campaign 
of "Frightfulness. " 




Another case of wiping hands on the American flag. 

[78] 



THE feeling of America for devasted Belgium 
was shown in the action of the Rocky Moun- 
tain Club, w^hich gave the million dollars collected 
for a club house in New York, to the Homeless 
Belgians. 




For homeless Belgium. 

[79] 



AN American merchant ship was sunk, carrying 
down a score of American sailors. Not a 
single child in the lot. The price of "Frightful- 
ness" seemed wasted. 




'Shame — only American sailors! Not a woman or child in the lot." . 



MANY things done by the Germans in the heat 
and frenzy of vsrar will be forgiven, but in the 
days and years to come the murder of the sick and 
wounded and the devoted w^omen of the Red Cross 
on Hospital ships will be beyond human forgive- 
ness. 




Something to remember after the War. 

[81] 



MR. CARRANZA showed signs of having 
fallen under strong German influence. 
He seemed inclined to adopt the goose-step at 
Tampico. 




The new recruit. 

[82] 



THE tension in public feeling -was suddenly re- 
lieved by the revelations of a plot in w^hich 
Germany and Mexico -were to offer a full partner- 
ship to Japan in return for an attack on our south- 
western border. It caused a roar of laughter from 
Washington to Tokio and back. 




It is to laugh. 



THROUGH all the hideousness of war shone the 
light of the Red Cross. A fund for this great 
enterprise of humanity of one hundred and four- 
teen million dollars was raised in the United States 
in a -week. 



HBLPHER LI GHT SOTO S HINBi 




Not all is dark. 

[84] 



THE Kaiser's plan for "Getting the boys out of 
the Trenches" in Eastern France 'was almost 
as naive as Mr. Henry Ford's plan of two years 
ago, and much more effective. 




"We are now getting the enemy out of their trenches." — German 
report. 

[85] 



THE fate of the Romanoffs must have been most 
disturbing to the peace of mind of the Hohen- 
zollern family. The torch of Liberty arose "Like 
Thunder" across the seas. 




'Papa, here comes the light that killed Uncle Nick." 

[86] 



ENGLAND, France, Russia, Italy and the 
United States recognized that the Junker 
menace to the world must be thoroughly crushed 
before Peace could ever return to the world. 




The Junker must go. 

[87] 



PRUSSIA at last realized that the United States 
could no longer be cajoled. Austria was 
therefore advised to give up all pretense of friend- 
liness and come out into the open as a foe to 
America. 




'Come avay; our music iss not for Barbarians. 

[SS] 



THE "pacifists" were bending every endeavor to 
induce the American Government to bovs^ 
dow^n in craven acquiescence to the restrictions of 
BerHn on Ocean travel. 




The Piffle steams under orders from Wilhelmstrasse. 

[89] 



IT was discovered that German money was pay- 
ing a great part of the expenses of the Pacifist 
Party. 

The Pacifists w^ere w^illing to take the money, 
but objected to being found out. 




THE HONEY-MOON IS OVER. 

"He gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall." 

[90] 



A"U" BOAT was reported at work off the Port 
of Nevv^ York. This proved of considerable 
value to the recruiting sergeants. 




A good recruiting sergeant for Uncle Sam. 

[91] 



GERMANY set a trap beautifully baited with 
honeyed words for the Russian bear. 
It looked for a time as though the Bear w^ould be 
caught. 




Will it succeed? 

[92] 



THERE seemed to be a lack of realization on 
the part of many Americans that war was 
actually coming our w^ay and that in the German 
programme, "w^e w^ere next." 




"Your mother, your wife, your child may be next!' 

[93] 



PERHAPS Prussia builded better than she knew 
w^hen she carved out a heroic ^vooden figure 
to represent her hero, Von Hindenburg. 

The Von Hindenburg Line was constantly near- 
ing Berlin. 




Still "luring them on. 

[94] 



UNCLE SAM took command of one of the most 
powerful branches of his Industrial Army — 
the Railroads. They swore allegiance to the Flag. 




Mobilized. 

[95] 



ADMIRAL FISKE advocated going after the 
submarines with hydro-aeroplanes armed with 
torpedoes and guns. 

Congress w^as urged to provide a great fleet of 
the aero craft. 




The way to do it. 

[96] 



THE Hohenzollern family were beginning to 
realize that the day of Divine Right was near- 
ing its end. They ^vere gathering at the feet of 
"Old Fritz" for their swan song. 




Rehearsing their swan song. 

t97] 



WHEN the Russian loosened his hold on the 
Junker Beast, a situation loomed up that 
called for all the resolution and resourcefulness 
of the remaining allies. 




Hold Fast, Everybody! 

[98] 



THE United States Marine Corps, true to its tra- 
ditions, was in the forefront of Uncle Sam's 
entry into the arena of the World's War. 




This is their emblem. 

[99] 



WHEN France presented the United States 
with the great Statue of Liberty, which 
stands at our gates, she Httle thought how pow^er- 
ful that symbol of her friendship would some day 
prove. 

By its shining light w^e now^ march to her aid. 




To France! 

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